This Interactive Easel activity teaches students to understand and interpret tone of an author allowing them to understand connotative and figurative English language through poetry and poems. This activity focuses on these five major tones of poetry: Serious, Humorous, Angry, Hopeful, and Sad or Melancholy type poems. The first section focuses on introducing the types of poems and then teaching students what themes, keywords, and main ideas to look out for when identifying each type. The seco